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FOREWARD			xv
by Paul E. Muller-Ortega

The Perfect Tradition
An Introduction to The Gnosticon by Carolyn Lee, Ph.D.			xxvii

PART ONE
Religion and Reality			3

	Moving Beyond Childish and Adolescent Approaches To Life and Truth		5

	The Parental Deity and The One To Be Realized		12

	God As The Creator, God As Good, and God As The Real		20

	The Culturally Prescribed God-Idea of Exoteric Religion Is Not The Divine Itself but Only A Cultural (and Entirely Conditional) Means For Turning To The Divine		31

	The Wisdom of Esotericism		34

	The Three Modes of Self-Evidence		35

	The Three Great Principles of All Truth		36

	Real (Acausal) God Is The Perfect Deep of The Happen of Seeming World		37

	God-Talk, Real-God-Realization, Most Perfect Divine Self-Awakening, and The Seven Possible Stages of Life		44

	The Transcendental Spiritual Way of Reality Itself Is Founded On The Tacit and Prior "Perfect Knowledge" of Reality Itself		83

	The Seventh Stage Way		90

PART TWO
I Am The Divine Avataric Gift of The Bright — and of The Thumbs That Reveals It			93
	The Divine Avataric Self-Revelation of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
		The Forty-Six Divine Statements of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi
PART THREE
Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga			129
	The Intrinsically egoless Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Way of Adidam

PART FOUR
Eleutherios (The Liberator)			237

	The Radical Reality-Teachings of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
		I. Eleutherios	239

		II. What Is Consciousness?	260

		III. Truth, Reality, and Real (Acausal) God	268

		IV. The Perfect Practice	274

		V. Freedom	290

PART FIVE
Reality (Itself) Is All The God There Is			309

	A Discourse Given by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, to His devotees, on January 6, 2006 — on the occasion when He first Recited His Renderings of the Maneesha Panchakam, the Dasasloki, and the Devikalottara

PART SIX
The Reality-Teachings of The Sages of Traditional Buddhism and Advaitism, Presented and Rendered By His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj			333

	To Realize Nirvana Is To Realize The True Self		335
		Buddhist Realism and Its (Ultimately) Inherent Sympathy With Advaitic Idealism

	Transcendental Gnosis		342

	The Zero-Point and The Infinite State		348

	There Is A Non-Conditional Condition To Be Realized		357
		The Reality-Teachings of The Buddhist Sage Gotama Sakyamuni

	The Transcendental Truth of Reality		364
		The Reality-Teachings of The Buddhist Sage Nagarjuna

	The Sixth Stage Transcendentalist Ways of Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism — and The Seventh Stage Acausal Way of Adidam		374

	What Is Required To Realize The Non-Dual Truth?		385
		The Controversy Between The Talking School and The Practicing School of Advaitism

	Ten Declarations of The Transcendental Self-Identity of Consciousness Itself		393
		The Reality-Teachings of The Advaitic Sage Shankara

	The Five Declarations of Ultimate Knowledge		398
		The Reality-Teachings of The Advaitic Tradition As A Whole, On The Necessary Characteristics of An Inherently Perfect Guru, or True Master-Sage

	The Way of Knowledge That Becomes Possible Only At The Final Stage of Maturity		403
		The Reality-Teachings of The Advaitic Sage of The Devikalottara

	The Reality-Teachings of The Sage Ribhu		420

		The Plain Truth of Traditional (or Sixth Stage) Non-Dualism, As Represented By The Ribhu Gita	420

		The Legendary Story of The Sage Ribhu and His Devotee Nidagha, As Told By His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj	423

		The Essence of The Non-Dualist Reality-Teachings of The Sage Ribhu	425

		Abide As That	427

		On The Practice of Self-Abiding As The Indivisible Self-Reality of Intrinsically Self-Evident Being, Itself

	Sixth Stage Method Versus Perfect Practice		438
		A Discourse Given By His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, to His devotees, on December 11, 2005 — directly after He had first Recited His Rendering of the Ribhu Gita

	Advaita Buddha Dharma of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj		459

PART SEVEN
The Book of The Gnosticon			461
	A Discourse Given By His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, to His devotees, on January 28, 2006 — directly after He had first Recited His Renderings of the Reality-Teachings of Gotama Sakyamuni and Nagarjuna

PART EIGHT
The Unique Sixth Stage Foreshadowings of The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Seventh Stage of Life			497

PART NINE
The Searchless Essence of Radical Devotion To Me			525

PART TEN
The Only Liberating Discovery			545

PART ELEVEN
The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries			549
	The Revelation of The Preliminary “Perfect Knowledge” Teachings of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

	I. A Brief Introduction To The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries		551

	II. The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries
		The Preliminary Root-Practice of The Reality-Way of Perfect Knowledge	557

		1. The Five Reality-Teachings	559

		2. The Intrinsic Self-Realization of Reality and Truth By Means of The Preliminary “Perfect Knowledge” Listening-Practice of Transcendental Root-Standing	563

		3. On The Intrinsic Transcending of The Fault of Objects	567

		4. On The Intrinsic Transcending of The Fault of Knowledge and The Known	571

		5. On The Intrinsic Transcending of The Fault of Subjectivity	575

		6. On The Intrinsic Transcending of The Fault of Attention (or Point of View)	581

		7. Is Happen	587

	III. The Searchless and Acausally Awakened Preliminary Listening-Practice of Perfect Knowledge		591

	IV. As “It” Is		597

	V. My Inherently Free Speech		607

	VI. The Distinction Between The Preliminary Listening-Practice of Perfect Knowledge and The Perfect Practice of Perfect Knowledge		617

	VII. The Imposition of Pattern		635

	VIII. The Mirror and The Checkerboard		643

	IX. The Reality-Practice		661

	X. Transcendental (and Non-Conditional) Spirituality		675

	XI. The Root-Characteristics of Intrinsic Self-Understanding of Reality Itself		689

	XII. The Essence of Perfect Instruction		693

PART TWELVE
The Reality-Way			697

	The Way of The Mirror Is Me		699

	Mere Concentration Versus True Surrender		719

	The Ancient Walk-About Way		736

	My Spiritually Bright Silence		750

	True Devotion To Me Is Prior Coincidence With Me — Not The Search For Union and Unity With Me		754

	True Devotion Is Perfect Knowledge Demonstrated By Renunciation		762

	My Transcendental Spiritual Transmission-Work		769

	The Essentials of Reality-Practice In The Reality-Way of Adidam		772

	Acausal Adidam		774

PART THIRTEEN
No Seeking / Mere Beholding			789
	Transcendental Spiritual Initiation of The Perfect Practice of The Radical Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam

PART FOURTEEN
As Is			845
	The Perfect Word "Is" and The ego-Word "I"		847

	The Way of Is		857

PART FIFTEEN
The Boundless Self-Confession			865

PART SIXTEEN
Advaitasara / Nirvanasara			907
	The Root-Esssence of The Truth and The Way and The Means and The Realization of Indivisible Transcendence

	The "First Room" Self-Revelation of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

		I. The Truth of Indivisible Transcendence	909

		II. The Way of Indivisible Transcendence	912

		III. The Means of Indivisible Transcendence	913

		IV. The Realization of Indivisible Transcendence	916

LAST WORD
I Say This			919



NOTES TO THE TEXT OF THE GNOSTICON			925

GLOSSARY			947

BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
Selected Writings and Discourses by Avatar Adi Da Relating to Adidam and the Transcendentalist Traditions			1010

Selections from The Basket Of Tolerance Relating to the Transcendentalist Traditions			1024

The Universal Offering of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj			1037
	by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba

The Sacred Literature of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj			1043

Index			1065